English Have you seen a tramp collier … Have you seen a tramp collier come out of a hurricane— with broken booms, gunwales shot to pieces, crumpled, gasping, come to grief— and her captain gone all hoarse? Snorting, she puts in at the sunlit wharf, exhausted, licking her wounds while the steam thins in her…

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Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1974 The Imperatives of Survival Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is nearly with a feeling of despair that I come to your beautiful country and city to receive this hardly deserved honor. Despair partly because we are living in a world where war, violence, brutality and ever increasing armament dominate the…

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I was born in Belgium, in 1899. Longlier, my birthplace, is located in a high point of the Belgian Ardennes, atop the rising spur of an eroded remnant of the foot of the Alps, next to a deep valley. In the Middle Ages, it had been a fortified place, of the Francs and Carolegian dynasties.…